Ikigai The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life

"No offense but you are always so grumpy, it's actually kind of cute." I bluntly say to him and watch him throw me a nasty glare, I just giggle at that. "I'm not." he defends himself in a calm yet stern voice keeping his face emotionless. "sure." I find myself saying sarcastically. I think I'm too drunk  because there is no way a sober River will have the courage to hold a conversation with a very grumpy Killian. I expect another scary glare to come towards me but instead I meet with a soft gaze that stares at me with an unreadable expression. "I'm not." This time he says softly, I see him biting back a small smile and , he smiles. I've never seen him smiling before, not this way. Standing on the edge of life, River breathes in and lets himself adjust into a new life, into a new family. After a horrifying past he finds his life wrapped around a shaggy orphanage and several foster homes which makes it hard to believe that he is actually being adopted. Having a family was always a desire of him but to his burnt luck, he doesn't feel like he belongs in his adoptive family. Everyone and everything around him make it clear that he wasn't born to be happy. River is waiting for another push, one last push to end it all and fall from the edge and that's when a grumpy looking Killian Price steps into his life. River can't decide if Killian is the saviour or the devil himself. River's life meets with unexpected secrets mixed with burning desire, adorning the melancholic attire. Soon, he finds out he isn't the only one standing on the edge of the cliff, or he realises he is far from the edge.

"Boss, your one night stand five years ago, Katya Petrov, is back, and she has a son who looks just like you. On your orders, we will bring her to you, but you have to know, she has now become powerful." *** Five years ago, Katya was naive and believed that the handsome stranger she met at the bar was a knight who would sweep her off her feet, and save her from the shackles of her ruthless father, who has promised her to an old Mafia Don. But it is to her shock when she discovers that the man who broke her virginity was only using her to get to her father. Ferrara De Castello gives no fuck about what he uses to get what he wants as long as he obtains the required result. To him, the end justifies the means. And at the beginning, his desire was to ruin the Petrov clan, but now, his obsession is Katya Petrov and claiming the smart little boy as his heir. Problem is, the sweet innocent Katya he knew before, is as good as dead. And she will do everything in her power, to stand in his way. But four year old genius Christopher has other plans for his mommy, if she insists on staying away from his dad, "Mom, why don't you like daddy?"

"Just let me hold you for a while, please," he said after setting me back down. This time, he laid me in the middle of the bed before sliding in next to me. "What if this was really me? Not a dream version of Lucy but the real thing?" I asked. He reached his hand across to me, pulling my hair behind my ear before pulling me closer to his body. "Well, in real life, you probably would have slapped me for doing this," he said, making us both laugh. Little did he know. After I witnessed my mom's murder, I fled my pack to search for a freedom I knew may never exist. I dreaded the day I would turn 18 as I never wanted a mate bond after the horror I had lived through. After years of being sold as a slave, I found myself belonging to a new pack once again. And then, I turned 18. I found not just one but two mates along with untapped power that I have no idea how to manage. ***TRIGGER WARNING - SA AND PHYSICAL ABUSE MENTIONED THROUGHOUT STORY***

Grace Jones fell in love with a stranger at first sight on her final day in college which led to a one night stand. And she believed she had found her mate till the next morning when she woke up and the stranger was no longer there. Grace fell pregnant two months later and had to run away from home as her parents were forcing her to abort the pregnancy. She managed to survive somehow and became a freelance writer. Seven years later, Grace saved a young Billionaire who later turned out to be the Father of her child, the one man she had loved and hated at the same time...

Hot and gorgeous Andrius Monterio sets his goals in life. Money, power, and fame. For him, girls were toys to play within his bed to satisfy his needs. But, everything changed when his manang-like secretary came into the picture. Her beautiful neck, silky white skin, and pointed nose didn't left his mind. A bad-mouthed woman who seemed to hate his guts. Andrius lusted Anya. He was fucked up. And, he wanted to fuck his sexy-try too.

Natalie Joy Figueroa is a twenty-two year-old young woman, sexy and tall. All the men were distracted by her beauty. Expectedly , her feelings fall on a scrap man named John Dave. John Dave Fermindoza is a twenty-three-year-old young man, handsome , tall and mascular. He is the opposite of the life that Natalie has. John Dave lived alone and made the trade to earn for his education and to meet his financial needs. The saying that Natalie always hears, "The poor are only for the poor and if you are rich you are only for your fellow rich." Will Natalie break her audible belief for the rich and the poor? Will be she able to fight her love for the scrap man even if they have different statuses in life? Is is true that there are no poor and rich in love?

Luna Black wants to have a lovely summer holiday with her grandad in the country side but she finds out that her grandad isn't the kind and loving man she has always thought he was, he was something worse.Apart from her grandad being worse, her aunt is back to remind Luna of her past, the one she had tried to bury and Luna has a really big problem living with her aunt while her mum is away to God-knows-where

Anushka grew up in the vast tea plantations of Darjeeling, North Bengal. And like eight or ten ordinary girls, she was fastidious and fickle, but from the age of ten, she had a overcome many obstacles to fight relentlessly against the odds of fate. But she overcome these adversities very well. All of a sudden, Anushka's marriage started to struggle, her father objected at first, but under the pressure of her grandmother, Anushka was finally married to the son of an elite family of Kolkata. On the day of the wedding, Anushka came to know that 'Amarnath' and 'Anjali' are not her parents. Anushka's groom ' Rahul' unfortunately died on the day after the wedding like seventy two hours later. It took him a long time to erase this cruel past and start a new life. The collaboration of 'Nithin Sir' came to the city after the finale exam of the school with very good results to conquer her own destiny by fulfilling her dreams. Andright here her life takes a turn or another new drama begins which surpasses even life..... To know the rest, you have to read this incredibly novel.

“The old Clara you knew was long gone. This Clara you were hating was made up from pain and your hatred.” Growing up despised and belittled by not having her wolf, Clara awaits to meet her mate. She thought he would be her escape into her terrible existence, but it turned out worse than she could ever have expected. She had wished not to meet him at all. As Clara was questioning why would her own fated mate do all of those, Samuel’s desires weren’t complicated: make sure Clara won’t flee from his grip and make her suffer in every possible way he can. Will Alpha Samuel choose to do his long planned revenge or keep his exceptionally powerful healer Luna on his side? A looked down daughter of a Beta was transformed into a fierce healer that Samuel never knew he needed.

One year ago, an innocent one-night-stand leaves her with the best gift of her life – a little surprise. Brittany gets her life together and moves on, creating a life for her baby. There is no room for men in her life or her bed. However, she bumps into the very man who wanted nothing to do with her, the man who had taken her all and left her broken, a man who she still desires more than she’d ever admit.